Use type casts or the BY, WO, and DW operators with the address-of operator (&) to replace the assembly-language PTR operator.
| MASM Expression | CodeView Equivalents |
| BYTE PTR Var | BY &Var *(unsigned char*)&Var |
| WORD PTR Var | WO &Var *(unsigned *)&Var |
| DWORD PTR Var | DW &Var *(unsigned long*)&Var |